San Diego @ Colorado preview

Last Meeting ( Aug 12, 2013 ) San Diego 2, Colorado 14

Colorado's Jeff Manship should be more rested as he makes his second start of the season when the Rockies host the San Diego Padres on Tuesday in the middle contest of their three-game series. The right-hander took a red-eye flight from Colorado Springs to New York on Thursday and arrived at 5:30 a.m. ET - about seven hours before throwing his first major-league pitch of 2013. Despite the unusual circumstance, Manship kept the Rockies in the game by allowing two runs over five innings in a 2-1 loss.

Manship will have a hot team behind him as the Rockies posted a 14-2 victory in Monday's series opener, giving them four straight wins for the first time since they captured eight in a row in April. Colorado improved to 11-3 against San Diego in 2013 while recording a season high in runs. The Padres' Jaff Decker recorded his first major-league hit - a home run - Monday while San Diego was losing for the fifth time in its last six games.

TV: 8:40 p.m. ET, FSN (San Diego), ROOT (Colorado)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Padres Eric Stults (8-6, 3.50 ERA) vs. Rockies RH Jeff Manship (0-1, 3.60)

Stults did not receive a decision after yielding three runs (two earned) and five hits while striking out six in seven innings of San Diego's 10-3 loss to Baltimore on Wednesday. The 33-year-old is 2-0 with a 1.13 ERA in two starts versus the Rockies this season and 3-0 with a 3.35 ERA in 10 career games (six starts) against them. Stults is 3-8 with a 4.64 ERA in 13 outings on the road, with one of the victories coming at Coors Field.

Manship performed well enough to earn another start with the big club and likely will stay while Tyler Chatwood is on the 15-day disabled list with an elbow injury. "I thought I did pretty well, so I hope I can build on that," said the 28-year-old, who attended Notre Dame and was a 14th-round draft pick of the Twins in 2006. Manship, who was 3-2 in 41 games (six starts) for Minnesota from 2009-12, never has faced the Padres.

WALK-OFFS

1. Rockies rookie 3B Nolan Arenado and San Diego CF Will Venable have nine-game hitting streaks. Arenado is 14-for-33 during his run, while Venable is 11-for-33 and hitting .355 since July 14 - raising his average to .252.

2. Colorado RF Michael Cuddyer missed the last two games because of the flu.

3. Stults has limited the Rockies' roster to a .218 average in 78 at-bats and hasn't yielded a home run.

PREDICTION: Rockies 3, Padres 2